Developing a linked data collection to report on the relationships between child protection and youth justice supervision

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Using available national data to understand the characteristics of children and young people who are both in the child protection system and under youth justice supervision, and their pathways through these systems, would assist support staff, case workers and policy makers to achieve optimal outcomes for children and young people and for their families. This report describes how these data collections can be linked and how the relationships between child protection and youth justice supervision can be explored.

ISSN: 2205-5045 (PDF) 1833-1238 (Print)

ISBN: 978-1-74249-834-8

Cat. no: CWS 55

Pages: 31

Findings from this report:

Data linkage would allow patterns of service use to be explored within a single financial year or over multiple years